Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.